PART MĀORI STYLISED ALPHABET G — Z
Current bid $15, Closes Monday
One for the type heads. I have no idea who it’s by or if it ever got anywhere beyond a doodle, but it’s pretty charming and the H and T are particularly good.
A LARGE REPUTEDLY MĀORI ANCHOR STONE
Current bid $120, Closes Monday
Found in the Whaitara area mid last century. 315mm long. An oddly sensual object.
RUSSIAN ICON OF THE PROPHETESS ANNA AND ST STEPHEN THE CONFESSOR
Current bid $960, Closes Tuesday
I love a good Russian icon and this one is great - a little later than others that have been around lately but the details are brilliant — the wee Jesus around the neck of St Stephen is particularly good. C.1889
RON BROWNSON’S EAMES CHAIRS
Current bid $1,050, Closes Tuesday
Nice examples of this model. I like to think he was sitting in one of these when he found out everyone at the gallery was calling him Brown Ronson behind his back.
JAPANDI SIDE TABLES
Current bid $50, Closes Tuesday
Adorable little side tables with limited surface area so you don’t end up sleeping next to piles of dusty books and a wee drawer each for your weird personal bedside needs.
PAIR OF SEBEL TUBE CHAIRS
Current bid $200, Closes Tuesday
These extremely 1960’s chairs look to be in pretty good nick and in such an insanely rich brown palette I’m worried about getting diabetes just looking at them.
SOREN LIV LIVIA CHAIRS
Current bid $1,500, Closes Tuesday
These are adorable AND their colour is listed as ‘Biscuit and Dijon’ which is also adorable.
WIRE LIGHT SHADE
Current bid $40, Closes Tuesday
This will be a nightmare to dust but its passing resemblance to a dandelion is nice.
MILLER TIME PINT GLASS
Current bid $20, Closes Tuesday
Clear, classic messaging on a great beer glass.
MICRO MACHINES STAR WARS TOY
Current bid $60, Closes Tuesday
Podracing toy from Micro machines, actually looks quite fun but also an amazing gift for any actual Phantom Menace fans.
BOOMBOX
Current bid $100, Closes Tuesday
Not the coolest design of one of these things but they are getting harder and harder to find. If you are buying it please be forewarned that these things eat through D size batteries at an alarming rate.
VINTAGE ARMOURGUARD HAT
Current bid $30, Closes Tuesday
I can’t believe they abandoned this awesome uniform palette. What a waste.
From the bookcases of Ron Brownson:
ANDY WARHOL PERVY POLAROID BOOK
Current bid $260, Closes Tuesday week
Polaroids remain unmatched as a medium for amateur porn, but it’s hard to imagine them carrying a lot of sexual energy in the hands of the weirdly horny-asexual Warhol - can someone buy this and let us know?
EUGENE RICHARDS: COCAINE TRUE COCAINE BLUE
Current bid $100, Closes Tuesday week
This hardcover edition of Eugene Richard’s study of urban drug addiction is going for 1500 bucks on Amazon.
WILLIAM KLEIN: ROME
Current bid $1,000, Closes Tuesday week
Very cool portrait of 1950s Rome, shot while Klein was assisting Fellini on Nights of Carbiria.
LARRY CLARK: TEENAGE LUST
Current bid $260, Closes Tuesday week
You could buy this and potentially even enjoy it but I feel it would get your name on the kind of list that makes international travel hard.
PETER HUJAR: LOVE AND LUST
Current bid $300, Closes Tuesday week
If you have interest in this, please also know that in the Architecture + Design Film Festival starting shortly, Ira Sach’s film Peter Hujar’s Day with Ben Wishaw and Rebecca Hall is playing which looks pretty good.
